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Tag: Franklin Repository
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A clerical correspondent writes us from the Southern coast protesting against the rapid tendency to amalgamation… Franklin Repository 1863-12-09 page 4, column 4 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library A clerical correspondent writes us from the Southern coast protesting against the rapid tendency to amalgamation. He says that…
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Summary: Attacks the Southern Democracy’s supposed distaste for “niggers,” and notes their close quarters with blacks at home, including the propagation of “half-niggers.”
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Speaking of morals, you asked me what effect the female population of mixed blood was going to have on society here [in Charleston, South Carolina]. I have looked somewhat into the matter since my return, from what I can learn, I believe there is hardly a young man here of Southern birth, who can afford…
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The report provides a bleak assessment of life in post-war South Carolina, particularly for union men and blacks who “are at the mercy of a set of wretches, as unprincipled as they are cruel.”
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The Slavery Democracy prates and chaters about ‘negro equality, ‘Black Republicans,’ and ‘nigger stealing,’ to use its classic phrase and improved orthography. It has or affects to have, a great horror of ‘niggers.’ And any one who advocates the principles of human Freedom, as they were enunciated and laid down in enduring forms by the…
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Statistics On Miscegenation Franklin Repository 1864-04-27 page 1, column 6 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: The Repository details the disproportionate number of “mulattoes” in the South relative to the North. Full Text of Article: There were 411,613 mulatto slaves in the south in 1840, of whom…
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(No Title) Franklin Repository 1863-12-09 page 4, Column 4 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: Argues that “amalgamation” is common in the South and “very rare” in the North. A Southern correspondent concerned with the number of mixed marriages occurring wanted “amalgamation” outlawed. The Repository claims that…